my Handmaids story

#MyHandmaidsTale It's a bit dark from my perspective, but nothing too much. Enjoy

[A counterintuitive approach to the #myhandmaidstale challenge] A broken smile twisted her features into something cruel. "I'm the one who's going to make your people pay for what you did." || if you like this story, please vote and comment! ||

495 Word Short Story - Failing to conceive, an Asian woman retreats into her invisible cloak. "It clings to me, squeezing like a metal band around my chest whenever we are around parents with babies and small children."

#handmaidstalecontest #AliceInWonderlandStyle

This is Margaret Atwood at the absolute peak of her powers. For readers of "Oryx and Crake," nothing will ever look the same again. The narrator of Atwood's riveting novel calls himself Snowman. When the story opens, he is sleeping in a tree, wearing an old bedsheet, mourning the loss of his beloved Oryx and his best friend Crake, and slowly starving to death. He searches for supplies in a wasteland where insects proliferate and pigoons and wolvogs ravage the pleeblands, where ordinary people once lived, and the Compounds that sheltered the extraordinary. As he tries to piece together what has taken place, the narrative shifts to decades earlier. How did everything fall apart so quickly? Why is he left with nothing but his haunting memories? Alone except for the green-eyed Children of Crake, who think of him as a kind of monster, he explores the answers to these questions in the double journey he takes - into his own past, and back to Crake's high-tech bubble-dome, where the Paradice Project unfolded and the world came to grief. With breathtaking command of her shocking material, and with her customary sharp wit and dark humour, Atwood projects us into an outlandish yet wholly believable realm populated by characters who will continue to inhabit our dreams long after the last chapter.

In Thriller Suite -- appearing serially for the first time on Wattpad -- Margaret Atwood has gathered these new poems inspired by her long history as a reader of strange tales, from 19th century gothic classics to ghost stories to crime fiction and thrillers. Poems that cross thresholds...

My entry into Margaret Atwood's #Freeze-Dried Fiction contest. Read Margaret Atwood's story, the Freeze Dried Groom, then read my story as a prequel. When Dr. Claire Ledus loses her sister in a tragic accident, her life is changed forever. As she grieves, she struggles to forgive the man whose carelessness cut her sister's life short. Is Clyde Davis a monster, or simply a man who made a terrible mistake? Perhaps Clyde deserves Claire's forgiveness. But when Claire learns the truth about her sister's life after her death, she is no longer certain she can forgive herself.

Why did you write MaddAddam, I’m sometimes asked?